ruby threads? the point?

[Eric Armstrong]

This has been brought up at previous Ruby Conferences. It is my
understanding that it is being worked on. So, relax and watch the
blinking lights.

Yay! Thanks for the news.
I don't get to enough conferences...
:_)

 

[Eric Armstrong]

kbhit returns whether there are any keystrokes in the buffer
getc returns them.

Nice! Didn't know about that kbhit.
That has promise. I wonder if there is a
multi-platform version of that API?

With that capability, I can dispense with
threads altogether, sleep for 1 second
intervals, and look for keyboard input
every time I wake up.

A brain-dead implementation is good enough
for this particular beast...
:_)

 

[Eric Armstrong]

What happens if you just use select to read the file descriptor associated
with stdin? On Windows iirc, this descriptor is already raw. For Solaris
etc
you can just make it raw with termio calls.

Sounds promising. Do you have a bit of code
to go with the suggestion, perchance?
(I'm having a bit of trouble filling in the blanks.)